Essentials of pharmacology for nurses

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However, suppose nursing students feel like giving up. In that case, they should not because there are many ways to study for an exam – all of them do not necessarily mean memorizing everything about medications and their side effect – which will guarantee them passing marks/grades at the end of the semester. Medication information is up to date. It is a great book to help nursing students learn medications. In the antidiabetic chapter only one brand of rapid insulin is shown which may be construed to endorse only one type of rapid insulin. That may be because it was the first one produced in the 1990s. This chapter needs much updating to include the new class of antibiabetic medications such as GLP1s and SGLT2s.

Most students find it hard to study pharmacology because of the high dosage of information they need to learn. However, there are some tips on how nursing students can ace their pharmacology course without studying too much and spending too much time memorizing drug names. Make Outlines New drugs are frequently developed in direct response to the emergence of new understanding of the disease process and the place of enzymes, hormones, neurotransmitters and immuno-active substances within it.Deslandes P, Young S and Pitcher B (2020) Rapid medicines management for healthcare professionals. Newark: Wiley.

The text is well written and clear, and provides adequate context and/or explanations for any jargon/technical terminology used. Collins, S. , Lilley, L. , Harrington, S. , & Snyder, J. (2011). Pharmacology and the Nursing Process (6th ed. ). St Louis, MO: Mosby Inc. The Pharmacology Matters team have a series of articles and blogs planned to celebrate awareness days and weeks throughout the year. If you have ideas for future topics that align with a particular celebration, please get in touch at [email protected]. Royal College of Nursing and Royal Pharmaceutical Society (2020) Guidance on prescribing, dispensing, supplying and administration of medicines: March 2020: position statement. London: RCN. Reviewed by Alicia Layne, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Bay Community College on 6/8/21

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Contributors Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN); Editors: Kimberly Ernstmeyer, MSN, RN, CNE, CHSE, APNP-BC 1 and Elizabeth Christman, DNP, RN, CNE. Scottish Government Polypharmacy Model of Care Group (2018) Polypharmacy guidance, realistic prescribing (3rd ed.). Scottish Government. Scottish Government. Pharmacology is one of the most essential subjects in nursing school because nurses are the ones who dispense medicines to patients. Nurses are also the one who supervises how well the patient is tolerating certain medications. This textbook is designed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students as a basic comprehensive pharmacology textbook. The book includes links to DailyMed for reference to information about medications from the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health. Each chapter starts with learning objectives. Quizzes are found in each chapter with the answers and rationales provided at the end of the text. Critical thinking activities and interactive activities are included. A glossary is found at the end of each chapter. The source is comprehensive for an introductory nursing pharmacology text. Medications are group together by body system they work on, and the pharmacological classifications are appropriately placed.